Introduction to Digital Boardroom ASUG Webcast

This was an ASUG webcast last week. Below are my notes as I heard them.

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Future looking statements may not happen – and apply to these notes

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During SAP Board meeting, Dr. Plattner, why board presentation materials were in static PowerPoint while data from PowerPoints are coming from SAP systems. SAP CIO Helen Arnold took an action to have an actual live system during the board meeting to show data. The proof of concept was successful; this was a common issue with other companies

“Reimagine board room for the digital economy”

Three values are shown above

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With total transparency – see company situation in real time

Align executive decisions on one source of the truth

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On the webcast, SAP said you get a complete picture in real time – get 360 degree reporting without duplication

Using Cloud for Analytics – new capabilities – a Cloud BI application, acquire data and store in Cloud- data duplication

In Cloud for Analytics – hybrid mode – online connectivity to backend system such as HANA or BW – in these scenarios you can connect to live system and get real time information. Using HANA you can have one reporting environment

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Maximize impact on audience

It is not just about the software but how it is presented

Idea is in the boardroom, you have 3 large 65 inch screens, side-by-side

Screens are touch-enabled, similar to your tablet, phone, pinch, swipe

Left is the overview

Middle – main and exploratory screen

Right is the context screen

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Content is from different business areas aligned on a single semantic model

This is a photo of the solution with the 3 screens that are touch-enabled

Reusable content

Built in design best practices

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Reduce boardroom prep and effort, with an interactive agenda, created through an agenda builder, define agenda, and hyperlinks to overview dashboards and contextual information

Present based on agenda

Not just show predefined stories, free to answer ad-hoc questions

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SAP Digital Boardroom is part of the SAP Cloud for Analytics suite, delivering “ visibility for the executive management team”

It is for the top floor to the shop floor

You can use this as a status cockpit

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End to end predefined content from transactions to visualizations

Optional Services offering to kick-start deployment

Planned innovation – connect to S4/HANA – connect to CDS views to model data and able to leverage those models in Cloud for Analytics

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Uses Cloud for Analytics modeling capabilities, planning, BI

Planned predictive, GRC

Ability to connect to cloud and on-premise

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Online connectivity allows you to leave data “in place” or in HCP

Can query on premise; the browser connects to C4A and data sources

If your browser is behind firewall, then when query data then the data doesn’t have to go up to cloud to browser

It is using the INa protocol with a reverse proxy which sits in your firewall

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Online mode without replication

On the right with data acquisition mode – good for data preparation

Implementation Strategy

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Prepare, plan, maybe do a design thinking workshop

SAP offers services

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You can do a value prototyping exercise based on best practices and load your data into that scenario

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SAP Runs SAP

SAP CFO Luca Mucic uses

It is cloud app, do not need expensive IT department, access data in real-time

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No notes on this one, but a recap

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Example from SAP with what if was shown during a live demo

Agenda screen, first order of business

Cloud application, in hybrid, and going against on premise data, live in real time, against 750M rows of data

Question & Answer

Is it only available in S/4 HANA ?

No this is not limited to S/4 HANA. Multiple connections are supported

are you able to filter from that main “Agenda” screen?

not from agenda builder but yes on the next story pages

What is the relationship between digital boardroom and Lumira or design studio?

Ty Millers’ webcast in this series has a great overview that will help answer this question – comparing Cloud for Analytics, Lumira and Design Studio. The webcast recording in on line at ASUG.comhttps://www.asug.com/discussions/docs/DOC-43265

Is this SAP’s tool to compete against QlikView, Tableau, Spotfire? some of the visualizations seem similar to those tools

sure Agile Visualization. The others are primary desktop on premise

yes in the 3 screen display, can you filter across all visualizations simultaneously?

will follow but don’t think so. Filtering within a single screen

I don’t want my data to go to the cloud, can boardroom read from my BW on HANA DB?

Yes

It seems that the boardroom content has to be planned, built, tested, moved to Prod. How would this work for ad-hoc content? Our leadership will want different measures and market data right off the press, with ppts put together hours before the meeting

yes is agile

Does Digital Boardroom security framework integrate with Cloud for Analytics? or HANA?

Digital Boardroom is Cloud for Analytics and can leverage HANA security